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Redwood Country

California's fabled wine country finds
itself at a crossroads

For Louise Hallberg, whose heritage runs more than a century deep in northern California's wine country, big changes are stirring within an owl's hoot of her shady front porch.

Directly behind Ms. Hallberg's clapboard home near the town of Graton, on the ranch her Swedish grandparents established in 1883, a towering row of eucalyptus provides a windbreak for the 40 or more species of butterflies that visit the nine-acre Hallberg...